The government shutdown prevented biologists from completing updated analysis of ocean conditions, so catch limits for ...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) has slashed pollock quotas in the Gulf of Alaska by more than 25 percent ...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to keep next season’s catch limits at just under 1.4 million metric tons.

I grew up in Alaska and have spent much of my life – 43 years – fishing the Bering Sea. I captain the F/V Sovereignty, a 165-foot catcher boat that’s part of the commercial pollock fleet. From the ...

If you order a Filet-O-Fish at any of the “Arches,” the fish in the sandwich is U.S.-caught wild Alaska pollock. In fact, if you order a fish at virtually any quick-service restaurant, chances are ...

Cole Hockema captains the Pacific Storm, a 100-foot trawler based out of Kodiak, which his father owns. Cole Hockema has been fishing since he was a teenager growing up in Oregon. For 12 years now ...

In a new study, NOAA Fisheries scientists have analyzed how oceanic conditions influence Chinook and chum salmon bycatch in ...

We are Alaska pollock fishermen. We make our living on the water harvesting wild Alaska pollock, the country’s largest source of wild-caught seafood, under some of the toughest conditions and ...

US consumers ate record volumes of domestically caught Alaska pollock in 2024, signs that the US pollock industry claims shows Americans are responding to its marketing of wild Alaska pollock in favor ...

The harvest season for Alaska pollock opens January 20. The 2013 Alaska pollock Total Allowable Catch (TAC) for the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska is 1,387,146 metric tons, 3.8% higher ...

Pollock are transferred from a fishing boat into a processing plant in Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands, in January 2019. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will buy up to $50 million worth of ...

For years, anyone who makes their living on the water in Alaska – or depends on what comes off those boats – has felt like they’re fighting with one hand tied behind their back. Sky-high fuel bills, ...